Is God in Everything?

Those who are of the New Age thinking talk about God being part of everything and everything being part of God. ]

So...are they right? Is God in us from the beginning of our existence? Is God in the trees? Is God in the sky? Is God in the stars? Is God in the rocks?

I believe He is--but not in the way those of the New Age movement think.

I believe God is in everything just as a painter is in his paintings or as a writer is in his stories or a sculptor is in his statues.

Have you ever watched the Lord of the Rings and the "special features" that are on the accompanying discs? They often talk about how something in J.R.R. Tolkien's life somehow found its way into the story or something he loved was in the story. J.R.R. Tolkien had a great love of trees and thus, the Ents came to be. In those ways, J.R.R. Tolkien was in the stories he wrote.

So one could say J.R.R. Tolkien was in the ents and the elves and the hobbits and in every other thing in his book(s).

See where I'm coming from here?

Another example would be my writing. Things that I see and love as well as things from my life experiences become part of the story that I am creating. The words that you say come from inside you and thus, you are in your words. A musician's dark disposition and his thoughts pour out on a page and thus, he is in the words he writes.

I could go on and on with more allegories but I think you understand so I'll stop.

God is in everything He creates because everything He makes comes from wherever His ideas come from. He is in everything because He creates what He love and loves what He creates.

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Something to thank God for:

Your imagination.

Can you imagine not being able to imagine? What would the point be in writing stories? Sometimes the imagination is what makes time that would otherwise crawl unbearably by go much faster. The imagination makes life more enjoyable. It has allowed us to create things. Like our Father in Heaven, we enjoy creating things--stories, pictures, statues, houses, etc. Of course, our creations are nothing compared to His. Just as a young child's scratchings on a piece of paper are to a great painter's masterpiece, that is how our creations compare to God's. But we still have that desire to create things.

Well, I have gotten off-topic here...